glory

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

real

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

as if

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

future

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

C.S. Lewis

freeing

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Toni Morrison

perfectibility

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe

dream

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Jean Genet

heal

Time doesn't heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let it go.

Roy T. Bennett

delay

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

time

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Tennessee Williams

beating

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Coco Chanel

truth

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

declaration

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Declaration of Independence

unknown

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends
everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that... Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing.

John Lennon

show

We should show our lives not as it is or how it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

Leo Tolstoy

silence

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only in the shadow of dreams.

Lewis Thompson

dream

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

pigmentation

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Djuna Barnes

bed

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

E.V. Lucas

keep

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Louise Driscoll

listening

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans.

Ruben Askew

accustomed

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

René Descartes

line

There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.

B. Quilliam

dreams

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of the things.

Muriel Rukeyser

looks

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Carl Gustav Jung

purpose

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

Steven Callahan

judge

Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

hope

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

L.J. Suenens

need

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

Dorothy Gilman

fulfilment

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Jean Baudrillard

responsibility

In dreams begins responsibility.

William Butler Yeats

delay

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

indifference

The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

success

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas A. Edison

happy

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

life

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

loss

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies inside of us while we live.

Norman Cousins

opponent

If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.

Sun Tzu, Art of War

hope

I have never been in despair about the world. I am enraged by it. I can't afford despair. You can't tell the children there's no hope.

James Baldwin

fall

Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold.

W.B. Yeats

imagination

Imagination is an old soul.

Richard Bach

fear

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

Marian Anderson

enemy

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.

Stephen Fry (paraphrasing Daniel Boorstin)

peace

There is peace even in the storm.

Vincent Van Gogh

truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Mark Twain

thy

Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.

Anonymous

No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.

Anonymous

we

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

reason

A good reason to have dreams is that in dreams, you don't have to have reasons.

Anonymous

dreams

Dreams are necessary for life.

Anais Nin